The president of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation in Russia, Prof Maurice Okoli, has urged the Nigerian students studying abroad to always engage in menial jobs to survive.
Okoli said this while reacting to a video of some Nigerian students who lamented hardships in Russia, adding that the federal government has not paid them.
In the video, the medical and engineering students said they gained scholarships through bilateral educational agreements between Russia and Nigeria, but have been left stranded.
“We’ve been left stranded by the Nigerian government. We have been forced into abject poverty, thereby sending our boys to menial jobs like working in construction sites and sending our girls into prostitution,” one of the students said.
“We were last paid in September 2024, and till date, we have not received a dime. We are soliciting the Nigerian government to come to our aid,” he said.
In May, the Federal
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